Aguna

Woman receives Jewish divorce after three-year struggle following financial pressure on husband

The couple had lived in Florida for over a decade, before separating in 2023. The husband refused to grant the woman, L., a get, demanding increasing financial compensation for it.

|ByTZVI JASPER
A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)
THE CHIEF RABBINATE’S Supreme Court for Appeals in Jerusalem: Israelis deserve a religious court system that honors both Halacha and human dignity, the writer asserts.

Rabbinical court chaos leaves Israelis trapped in a broken system - opinion

System failures, from missing files to postponed hearings, in Israel’s rabbinical courts are delaying justice and trapping families in legal limbo.

|BySETH FARBER
A room at Camp Shura designed for families to part from the deceased who have fallen in Israel's wars.

The 'unspoken agunot': The wives of men whose deaths by Hamas were never confirmed - opinion

In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot due to evil forces from without.

|ByRACHEL LEVMORE
THE POSSIBILITY that a woman whose husband is in the IDF reserves can become ‘chained’ became an increasing problem after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War.

IDF soldiers’ wives at risk: The urgent case for conditional divorces

The Israel-Hamas War has increased the risk of women becoming "chained" in their marriages because they can't get a Jewish divorce.

|ByEVE YOUNG

Bill seeks to publicly shame men refusing to give divorce

“Women denied a divorce may as well be dead,” MK Revital Swid said. “Their lives are behind bars created by their spouses.”

OCTOBER 10, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
File photo: Divorce.